Thursday, December 15 and Friday, December 16 The Holiday Surprise Shop is coming soon! This is an annual fundraiser where our kids have the opportunity to shop during the school day for 2 holiday gifts for someone special.  The Holiday Surprise Shop is stocked full with an array of gifts that range in price of approx. $8 per gift. Students are invited to bring their chore money to buy gifts so please have them bring in $16, in an envelope on the day their class is scheduled to shop (see Class Schedule below). For financial assistance, please see Marta. Students and parents are all invited at the end of the second shopping day on Friday, December 16th at 3pm, to return after school to buy additional gifts from the leftover inventory. This is a lot of fun for the kids and parents so please come by and support Franklin in this fundraiser! We are accepting donations for holiday wrapping (wrapping paper, cellophane bags, ribbon, gift/name tags and tape). Donations can be delivered to the home of Kristin Pustylnik (8 Warwick Rd) LOCATION : FLIC (Thank you Ms Stochaj!) FRIDAY 3pm Open Shopping! Click Here to Volunteer Surprise Shop Co-Chairs: Kristin Pustylnik and […]

Friday, Dec 2nd at 8:30am Jennifer Ambrose will join us at our general PTO meeting. Click here to view Jennifer’s bio – we hope to see many of you there!

80+ Franklin students all worked hard this past week- we are all in for an incredible show in February! Save the date(s) now- Feb. 10- 12, 2017.  Pictured is the workshop from last week..

With Thanksgiving around the corner, I wanted to take a moment to express my gratitude to all of you for making these first few months of the school year a success! Thanks to all of you volunteering your time and energy, and sharing your support and school spirit, our children have enjoyed the following so far this year: Back to School Popsicles An unforgettable first ever Welcome Back BBQ An assembly about the wonders of Hot & Cold elements Two guest Authors (Todd Parr and Audrey Vernick) The ever so popular Book Fair and After school Golf and Chess Club Opportunities And this is just the beginning! SHReK, Jr. the Musical has kicked off and begins tomorrow; the highly anticipated Holiday Gift Shop comes in December, and Astrograss will perform an amazing musical assembly in January. Many more exciting and enriching opportunities will occur in the second half of the year; an early thank you to those volunteers already hard at work to enhance the elementary school experience for our children!  Lastly, thank you for your extreme generosity with your PTO donations! Your donations make it possible for us to bring all of these activities to life!  Warmest wishes to you and your family this Thanksgiving season,  Sheila Cheney -Franklin […]

Audition Workshop:  Monday November 14 3:15-5:5:15pm Tuesday November 15 3:15-5:5:15pm Wednesday November 16 3:15-5:5:15pm   Auditions: Thursday November 17 3:15-5:15pm (Lead Roles only) Friday November 18 3:15-5:15pm (Lead and Ensemble Roles)   All registration and dismissal forms complete with payment must be submitted by Monday November 14 at 8:15am in order to participate in the workshop. If you would be so kind to put the form in the SHReK box near the main office tomorrow am, we would greatly appreciate it. We can not dismiss your child properly without the form.   

A HUGE thank you to the Book Fair Committee, Jenny Birch, Alexis Cohen, Betsy Flaim, and Jamie Kessel, for all their hard work and time. A big thank you to our amazing set up and clean up volunteers who really impressed AllBook with their speed and commitment. Thank you to all the daily volunteers who helped this event run smoothly. Finally, thank you to all who purchased books. It warmed my heart to see the children so excited to buy books and then reading them. Loreli Stochaj Librarian

Our Children had a great time when Audrey Vernick came to visit Franklin last week!

Do Good for Others and Share your Halloween Candy with our Soldiers stationed overseas next week, and write them a letter thanking them for their service and loyalty to the US! Candy can be dropped off in the main office and will be donated on November 11, from 3-5pm. Volunteers to drive candy to Chatham during those hours are appreciated! Please email Ana DeCosta at aandrademail@yahoo.com if you can help deliver these sweet treats and kind wishes from our students.

Great to see everyone who attended the kickoff ‘pep rally.’  Holly and her team were very excited to meet all of you. We are quickly approaching our starting dates: November 14th, 15th, 16th  3:15 – 5:15: Audition workshop November 17th, 18th 3:15 – 5:15: Auditions   Below are the forms.  These forms and fees need to be turned in by Wednesday, November 9th.    SHReK the Musical JR. Registration Packet SHReK the Musical JR. Dismissal Form We are happy to announce that Joyce Cullen and Stacey Supran have joined our core Shrek parent liaison team.  Esther and Joyce will focus on production logisitics and Sue and Stacey will coordinate the volunteers. Musical Parent Liaisons Production Logistics : Esther McNulty (minaanddouglas@gmail.com) Joyce Yao (yaocullen@gmail.com) Musical Parent Liaisons Volunteer Coordination : Susan Flannery Huffman (flannery_susan@yahoo.com) Stacey Supran (ssupran@me.com)

.. Dressed as SHReK to help out on the Drop Off Line on Halloween?  It’s was our very own PTO President Sheila Cheney- from dunk tank to SHRek Costume, there is nothing Sheila won’t do to rally up Franklin Spirit!  Watch out for future sightings of the friendly beast as our 4th & 5th graders start rehearsing.